If you’re a fan of Swedish duo The Knife (Karin Andersson + her brother, Olaf Dreijer) — and, let’s face it, with 2004’s steel-drum-brandishing dancefloor crossover smash “Heartbeats” and one of the best, most stylistically innovative LPs of the 2000s (2006’s Silent Shout) to their name, who isn’t? — then you already know that it requires… Read More

I sat down with Jacksonville FL rapper, Astronautalis (“but for the love of God, call me Andy”) before his set at High Ground last month. He spent September and October on tour with Flobots and he’s now on tour in Russia. He crafts music that blends hip-hop, folk and indie rock into something really unique… Read More

Dear DJs, readers, listeners, et. al., Welcome to J-Term! Whether you’re living the Admissions-brochure dream (sledding on dining hall trays, partying every night, leaving the Snow Bowl only once a week to attend your workshop “The Lost Art of Italian Cupcake Decoration”), opting to “challenge yourself” by taking Orgo or a foreign language (lol…no), or… Read More

Welcome back! It’s J-Term (yay-term, play-term, etc.), which means we all have plenty of free time to catch up on whatever music we might’ve missed in the hustle and bustle of fall semester! This year in music brought us an impressive slew of new releases from both old favorites and new starlets. Veteran rock-gods like Swans… Read More

Last month, WRMC introduced the first annual Grooveyard- a new tradition for the radio to host a concert on Halloween weekend. I sat down with Kenny Vasoli, the singer of Vacationer, the show’s headliner. An old-timer in the music scene, Vacationer is Vasoli’s new project hailing from Philly, with a shoe-gaze, Beach House-inspired vibe. The… Read More

The past few weeks have seen the ‘Don’t Give a Brit’ boys cover the 90s in three short slots. So, in true ‘Don’t Give a Brit’ style,  I am completing this lack of an overall and thorough assessment in writing this week’s blog on an album released in the 1990 which fails to actually adhere… Read More

The summer of Rick Ross’s Maybach Music Group spills into the fall with the first album from the group’s biggest up and comer, Philly’s Meek Mill.  Meek has released a ton of mixtapes over the past few years, most notably Dreamchasers and Dreamchasers 2 in 2011 and 2012 respectively.  He’s also appeared on many tracks… Read More

good kid, m.A.A.d city is the first major studio album from Compton’s Kendrick Lamar, but it seems like he’s been around for a long time now.  As a member of the Black Hippy crew along with Jay Rock, ScHoolboy Q, and Ab-Soul, Kendrick won considerable props across the board following his releases through the independent… Read More

This week’s Math in Words attempts to subject an individual to the kind of intellectualizing he made a career out of rejecting.  Writing any kind of introduction to a piece on musician/pundit/engineer/ Steve Albini is a task which is incredibly marred by the many ventures he is/was involved in and his determination to avoid such… Read More

I know what you’re thinking – blog posts from ‘Don’t Give a Brit’ are synonymous with blog posts about drummers. In effect, I have even tunnelled my concentration to a larger extent than my last post on a single musical artist in dedicating this latest blog post on just the famous Phil Collins song ‘In… Read More

In some of the most exciting station news of the semester, WRMC is currently featured on the NPR music site for our help in curating their 2012 CMJ Preview Mix.  Dylan Redford, our general manager, was approached earlier this fall about collaborating with other prominent college radio stations on this mix and brought the project… Read More